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The end of a business letter about the wine trade. The writer quotes the local price of wine per sambathon delivered onto a boat and offers to send as much as the recipient wants, buying on credit against a pledge if necessary. He asks for a quick reply and complains that the recipient has not written.
The sambathon is a wine measure or container known mainly from late Roman papyri. The beginning of the letter, with the names of sender and addressee, is lost.
Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Business Letter). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.
[… ? lines lost …] [… 1 line lost …] …… ἐστιν καὶ α[…] ει ἡ τιμὴ ἡ τοῦ οἴνου. ἐνθάδε πωλεῖται τεσσάρων δηναρίων καὶ νούμμου τὸ σάμβαθον εἰς πλοῖον. μάθε καὶ τὴν γεινομένην δαπάνην ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ τέλος. καὶ ἐὰν βούλει πέμψω σοι ὅσα θέλεις, δυνατὸς γάρ εἰμι, καὶ ἐὰν μὴ ἔχω τὴν τ…
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